| 词条 | The Stone Angel |
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| name = The Stone Angel | image = File:The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence novel).jpg | caption = First edition | author = Margaret Laurence | title_orig = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | subject = | genre = | publisher = McClelland and Stewart | publisher2 = | pub_date = June 15, 1964[1] | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = 308 | awards = | isbn = | oclc = 365801 | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} The Stone Angel, first published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, is perhaps the best-known of Margaret Laurence's series of novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba. In parallel narratives set in the past and the present-day (early 1960s), The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Currie Shipley. In the present-day narrative, 90-year-old Hagar is struggling against being put in a nursing home, which she sees as a symbol of death. The present-day narrative alternates with Hagar's looking back at her life. Plot summaryIn a series of vignettes, The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old woman struggling to come to grips with a life of intransigence and loss. The themes of pride and the prejudice that comes from social class recur in the novel. As a young girl she refuses to rock her dying brother in the garments of their mother. As a young woman she marries against her father's wishes, severing the family ties. She shows favoritism towards her younger son, John. After Hagar separates from her husband, John comes with her. However, he ultimately returns to his father. When John dies, Hagar does not cry, and at that point, she turns into a "Stone Angel". Later in life, her elder son Marvin is shown to have been the good and loyal son all along, despite the lack of his mother's favour. As a 90-year-old woman, Hagar goes on an unexpected adventure into the woods alone. Given her age, there is an overtone that this event will be the last chapter of her life. In the woods, she meets another wanderer. The two have a bonding conversation, where Hagar finally opens up. A lifetime of buried emotion comes out, and she finally cries. The next day the police and Marvin come to rescue Hagar from the woods. In an act of love and repentance, she confesses to Marvin that he was the better son. It is unclear whether she dies at the end of the novel. Literary significance and criticismAmongst other titles by Laurence, The Stone Angel is consistently listed as one of the greatest Canadian novels ever written.[2][3][4][5] School boards have been pressured to ban her novels.[6] The novel is studied at the grade 12 university level in other schools.[7] Recognition and adaptations
References1. ^{{cite journal |date=June 15, 1964 |title=Books Today |journal=The New York Times |page=26 }} {{portal|Novels}}{{Margaret Laurence}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone Angel, The}}{{1960s-novel-stub}}{{Canada-novel-stub}}2. ^{{cite web|author=Eric McMillan|title=Greatest Literature of All Time|url=http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/lit-Canadian.html|publisher=Editoreric}} 3. ^{{cite web|author=Margaret Atwood|title=The LRC 100 (Part One), Canada's Most Important Books|url=http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2006/01/the-lrc-100-part-one/|publisher=Literary Review of Canada|date=2006}} 4. ^{{cite web|author=Lale Eskicioglu|title=The Stone Angel By Margaret Laurence|url=http://www.bizimanadolu.com/koseyazarlari/lale07.htm|publisher=Bizim Anadolu|date=July 2010}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Nora Foster Stovel|title=Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4bMh5WUSDIC&pg=PA5|date=January 1, 2008|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7503-5|pages=5–}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Margaret Laurence's books banned|url=http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1801856163|publisher=CBC}} 7. ^{{cite web|author=Linda Richards|title=Strength Without Beauty|url=http://www.januarymagazine.com/stoneangel.html|publisher=January Magazine|date=November 1998}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Leon Rooke|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/08/leon-rooke.html|publisher=CBC|date=August 2, 2014}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=A tribute to Margaret Laurence|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/01/a-tribute-to-margaret-laurence.html|publisher=CBC|date=January 5, 2015}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=The Stone Angel (2007)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009890-stone_angel/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes}} 5 : 1964 Canadian novels|Novels set in Manitoba|Novels by Margaret Laurence|New Canadian Library|Canadian novels adapted into films |
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